and which is more likely of the two: that the kids didn't actually know what gta was like or that somewhere between the incident and slashdot, someone misspoke? my guess is that it was the latter. now, (and getting back to what i was originally going for), responding to the prosecutor's statement that his version of what takes place in the game is factually wrong is a case of getting wrapped up in the details when the real issue is that video games don't cause kids to do fucked-up shit. if people respond by saying that the video game obviously didn't cause it because that's not what took place in the game, the bigger fact that video games, like movies and television, play very minor roles in inspiring crime. an individual with the inclination to commit crime, is going to do so.
Not to mention the fact that this point has brought up about ten previous times, it's also worth nothing that the anti-videogame nuts don't care whether there are trailers or not. You are capable of shooting vehicles in GTA3 and that is what the kids were emulating. Bringing up the point that there weren't rigs with trailers attached (because actually there were both rigs and trailers, they just weren't attached) only gives creedance to the argument that the videogame is to blame. Basically, they're saying this game has caused Action Y and you respond, "Action Y isn't in that game!" instead of saying, "Bad parenting and sheer willfull malice causes Action Y, not some video game!"
Next time I am in EB, I will take a look at some titles and find out. But I wouldn't think companies would leave themselves wide open and not have a disclaimer regarding the limited lifetime of servers.
And in this entire argument, no one is mentioning the fact that most games released for consoles which have online servers available to them, also have an End-Date printed on the packaging. I know my copies of Madden 2003 and Madden 2004 both state when the servers will be available. I am not 100% sure that PSO had these statements on the packaging, but I'd be willing to wager that they did - Sega isn't exactly an upstart with no legal expertise. There is no reason that a game store would give a refund on such a return and I call B.S. on the original post.
Why would Sony want to share the wealth? In-house development, as they've done in the past, must be more profitable. This got me thinking...(cue music)
Why did Microsoft strike a deal with ATI and not just buy the company? Also, which company is larger (based on profit and liquid assets), Sony or Microsoft. It seems that if Sony can develop their graphics cards in-house, Microsoft should be large enough to do the same.
While it is easy to cite a lawsuit in one sentence and make it sound like it was all without merit, you should do a little fact checking. The situation involved much more negligence on the part of the local McDonalds than most people realize. See this site to get started.
The group of fat people was thrown out of court because it lacked merit.
I believe the point the grandparent was alluding to was the fact that once on a blacklist, there is no way to get a domain off a blacklist. So an ISP would root out the spammers and not allow them as customers any longer but then you're still left with a situation where 3/4 of the customers can't contact family at AOL or Yahoo. Blacklists work but, thus far as an implementation, the colleteral damage cannot be corrected.
They are the result of a marketing behemoth - thousands of dollars are spent on post-production in order to make their work sound "good." If the common person had access to something that gave them perfect pitch, then all people would have equally good singing voices and the music would be judged on originality, lyrical content, and musicianship. This type of technology helps to level the playing fields - not create pop acts.
This seems like a perfectly natural progression. Technology has long been used to enhance human beings. One example is the use of steroids to make the body stronger. Of course, in that instance, there are negative side effects. Using this auto-tuner isn't going to hurt your body, so why not? Now bring on the bionic limbs!
Yes, criminals are useful. If America had no criminals in it there would be no need for a police force. Now, when a criminal does arrive from some far off land, no one is prepared for it. Basically, not having the negative (as you put it) is an unrealistic view of the world. You've got to assume that at some point, a criminal will exist in the world AND a virus will be released into the wild. Now, negatives such as all oxygen in a room suddenly moving to the corner of the room through random movements is a negative but it is not a likely negative.
In regards to viruses being good for security, I am soon expecting virus writers to plan for the inevitable clean fixes from Symantec and such and, using predictive behavior, ensure that a user can't clean his or her system.
Most viruses that are delivered through e-mail are Windows viruses.
Furthermore, I don't see how your informal study of the Windows community and the common sense found within its users can be even considered by anyone reasonable. Until you do a complete statistical study of operating system users, don't make generalized statements based on your limited view of the world. Also of note is that "common sense", as you call it, is only common sense in the realm of computing and to a non-technical person, it is not common sense at all.
False accomplishment? I suppose that's reasonable if you use a god code to walk through a game and never die but some cheats take quite a bit of work. For instance, in World Series Baseball 2K3 there are many quirks in the A.I. which, once known, can be exploited for runs. While this isn't a code that you enter, it is an exploit and therefore could probably fall into the category of a "cheat." But finding these exploits are accomplishments in and off themselves. I mean, I can steal home plate at will and it's not because I've got fast baserunners - it's because I've recognized patterns and tested the A.I. and learned how to do it.
Other than that, I think that in the future rather than (using typical FPS game as the example here) a god mode where no one can hit you, games should have plenty of slider bars in the settings section that allow you to customize the amount of shots that will hit you and the amount of guys that will spawn in order to adjust the game to your difficult level. Games could also have training levels that would automatically set the level of difficulty for your performance. Winning big is sometimes fun but it's much more satisfying to win by using all your wits to get by.
Way to be fucking gay; listen asshat, this whole comedy thing isn't that easy. Stop attempting it. What the fuck is a baster? I mean, you want to bust the original poster for mentioning 12 year old software and somehow imply that they were referring to 12 year old children, which makes no sense but then you make a fucking typo in your post you stupid faggot. FUCK YOU!! You could have done a little better with a joke like, "What do you want with the Barbie Makeover game?", implying that the 12 year old software is referring to software designed for 12 year olds, but even that is a stretch. Get a fucking life you cock-smoker.
Communicating with people in the Middle East isn't as easy as telling people in Cleveland that they should boil their water. Just ask the Israelis how easy communication has been with Arabs. I don't think the military is above critcism or anything BUT I also haven't seen any evidence that no communication with civilians was attempted. In fact, I recall that quite a bit of money was spent on leaflets and such. Do you have any evidence that troops did not follow protocol?
Checkpoints in war zones are designed so that you can have a secure area. In order to preserve this security, and therefore not risk the lives of your troops, anyone who tries to pass a checkpoint without showing identification and getting clearance, should be considered an enemy. While it is certainly not pleasing to anyone when women and children are killed, the simple fact is that in order to ensure the safety of our boys, people who are breaking the checkpoint need to be stopped. This has been the case in many wars in the past.
If you read Band of Brothers by Ambrose you'll see a section detailing how someone tried to run a checkpoint in occupied Germany - same result as the event you are alluding to. Preserving your bases in a war zone is not as simple as harvesting enough gold and lumber, my friend.
That being said, it would be interesting to have a much more realistic war simulation implemented that included checkpoints and supply lines. To my knowledge, there is no RTS game like this. You could control where checkpoints are placed, where bases are located, how troops are deployed, how aggressive you wanted to wage war, etc.
Yes, having advertising affecting search results is not good for the end user but (and I'm just bringing this up as a discussion topic), in what other ways can a search engine make money? It's clear that running a search engine has costs associated with it. To offset these costs, it seems like advertising is the only way to go. Now I can see that some search engines handle this in a more "slimey" way than others (I am happy with Google) but this project seems to want to avoid advertising at all costs. Where does the money come from then?
Also of note is that companies can still influence search engines in slimey ways - Google can be manipulated to make a page rank higher, although Google keeps an eye on this activity and works around it.
You obviously haven't done your research. Madden is out for more than one console but one of the sellings points of the PS2 version is that it will be the only online playable version. So that is how Madden can affect a buyer's choice of console, even though you stated that "it "wouldn't."
"No one gives a horses ass about EA, if they need a football game, theres another 3 choices out there. Its the uniques that grab people's attention -- final fantasy, GTA3, etc..."
I own a PS2 and, while I evaluate the crop of football games each year, the Madden series is one of my favorites. You appear to be a casual fan of football games, which is fine, but the hardcore player will seek out the best game - which in the past three years has been Madden. I do not give a horse's ass about Final Fantasy about would never ever consider buying a console simply because of something Square released. You may also want to take a look at some sales figures and realize that sports games are very popular sellers and EA's work, specifically in football (WSB 2K3 is the best baseball game), is one of the top sellers across all genres. Don't confuse what grab's your attention with what the majority of people are looking for.
Just because the government can consider buying Linux, doesn't mean it will. After all, Microsoft has got a pretty firm hold on the burecrats in charge.
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Just what I need, someone annoying me with a sales pitch and poor grammar during dinner!
and which is more likely of the two: that the kids didn't actually know what gta was like or that somewhere between the incident and slashdot, someone misspoke? my guess is that it was the latter. now, (and getting back to what i was originally going for), responding to the prosecutor's statement that his version of what takes place in the game is factually wrong is a case of getting wrapped up in the details when the real issue is that video games don't cause kids to do fucked-up shit. if people respond by saying that the video game obviously didn't cause it because that's not what took place in the game, the bigger fact that video games, like movies and television, play very minor roles in inspiring crime. an individual with the inclination to commit crime, is going to do so.
my point was that shooting at cars isn't that different from shooting at tractor trailers.
Not to mention the fact that this point has brought up about ten previous times, it's also worth nothing that the anti-videogame nuts don't care whether there are trailers or not. You are capable of shooting vehicles in GTA3 and that is what the kids were emulating. Bringing up the point that there weren't rigs with trailers attached (because actually there were both rigs and trailers, they just weren't attached) only gives creedance to the argument that the videogame is to blame. Basically, they're saying this game has caused Action Y and you respond, "Action Y isn't in that game!" instead of saying, "Bad parenting and sheer willfull malice causes Action Y, not some video game!"
Next time I am in EB, I will take a look at some titles and find out. But I wouldn't think companies would leave themselves wide open and not have a disclaimer regarding the limited lifetime of servers.
And in this entire argument, no one is mentioning the fact that most games released for consoles which have online servers available to them, also have an End-Date printed on the packaging. I know my copies of Madden 2003 and Madden 2004 both state when the servers will be available. I am not 100% sure that PSO had these statements on the packaging, but I'd be willing to wager that they did - Sega isn't exactly an upstart with no legal expertise. There is no reason that a game store would give a refund on such a return and I call B.S. on the original post.
Why did Microsoft strike a deal with ATI and not just buy the company? Also, which company is larger (based on profit and liquid assets), Sony or Microsoft. It seems that if Sony can develop their graphics cards in-house, Microsoft should be large enough to do the same.
The group of fat people was thrown out of court because it lacked merit.
I believe the point the grandparent was alluding to was the fact that once on a blacklist, there is no way to get a domain off a blacklist. So an ISP would root out the spammers and not allow them as customers any longer but then you're still left with a situation where 3/4 of the customers can't contact family at AOL or Yahoo. Blacklists work but, thus far as an implementation, the colleteral damage cannot be corrected.
They are the result of a marketing behemoth - thousands of dollars are spent on post-production in order to make their work sound "good." If the common person had access to something that gave them perfect pitch, then all people would have equally good singing voices and the music would be judged on originality, lyrical content, and musicianship. This type of technology helps to level the playing fields - not create pop acts.
This seems like a perfectly natural progression. Technology has long been used to enhance human beings. One example is the use of steroids to make the body stronger. Of course, in that instance, there are negative side effects. Using this auto-tuner isn't going to hurt your body, so why not? Now bring on the bionic limbs!
In regards to viruses being good for security, I am soon expecting virus writers to plan for the inevitable clean fixes from Symantec and such and, using predictive behavior, ensure that a user can't clean his or her system.
Furthermore, I don't see how your informal study of the Windows community and the common sense found within its users can be even considered by anyone reasonable. Until you do a complete statistical study of operating system users, don't make generalized statements based on your limited view of the world. Also of note is that "common sense", as you call it, is only common sense in the realm of computing and to a non-technical person, it is not common sense at all.
Other than that, I think that in the future rather than (using typical FPS game as the example here) a god mode where no one can hit you, games should have plenty of slider bars in the settings section that allow you to customize the amount of shots that will hit you and the amount of guys that will spawn in order to adjust the game to your difficult level. Games could also have training levels that would automatically set the level of difficulty for your performance. Winning big is sometimes fun but it's much more satisfying to win by using all your wits to get by.
A game room? The economy is tanking and corporations are considering a game room? That's management for you.
Way to be fucking gay; listen asshat, this whole comedy thing isn't that easy. Stop attempting it. What the fuck is a baster? I mean, you want to bust the original poster for mentioning 12 year old software and somehow imply that they were referring to 12 year old children, which makes no sense but then you make a fucking typo in your post you stupid faggot. FUCK YOU!! You could have done a little better with a joke like, "What do you want with the Barbie Makeover game?", implying that the 12 year old software is referring to software designed for 12 year olds, but even that is a stretch. Get a fucking life you cock-smoker.
Microsoft releases games for the PC and XBox.
Communicating with people in the Middle East isn't as easy as telling people in Cleveland that they should boil their water. Just ask the Israelis how easy communication has been with Arabs. I don't think the military is above critcism or anything BUT I also haven't seen any evidence that no communication with civilians was attempted. In fact, I recall that quite a bit of money was spent on leaflets and such. Do you have any evidence that troops did not follow protocol?
If you read Band of Brothers by Ambrose you'll see a section detailing how someone tried to run a checkpoint in occupied Germany - same result as the event you are alluding to. Preserving your bases in a war zone is not as simple as harvesting enough gold and lumber, my friend.
That being said, it would be interesting to have a much more realistic war simulation implemented that included checkpoints and supply lines. To my knowledge, there is no RTS game like this. You could control where checkpoints are placed, where bases are located, how troops are deployed, how aggressive you wanted to wage war, etc.
Also of note is that companies can still influence search engines in slimey ways - Google can be manipulated to make a page rank higher, although Google keeps an eye on this activity and works around it.
No, lie detector results are not admissable in court in Europe.
NFL 2K3 is not better than Madden 2003.
You already posted this comment fucktard. Stop posting so much - your work is boring, insipid, and uninspired.
Just because the government can consider buying Linux, doesn't mean it will. After all, Microsoft has got a pretty firm hold on the burecrats in charge.